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R. C. KEMBER Dec. 26, 195@ HANGER Filed Feb. 2%, 1948.

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Patented Dec. 26, :1950

HANGER Raymond `Charles Kember, London. England. as-

signorto Thorn Electrical Industries Limited, London, England, a company of Great Britain Application February 26. 1948. Serial No. 11,027 In Great Britain November 25, 1946 8 Claims.

This invention relates to articulated suspension members adapted to secure pendant articles,l such for example as electric lamp-holder and reector assemblies.

An object of this'invention is to provide a simplc and effective device providing an articulated connection between a'suspension member and a pendant article.

A further object is to enable the point at which the axis of the suspender meets the pendant article to be easily adiusted in order to correct any tendency of the article to hang at an unsuitable angle.

Another obiect is to provide a suspension-type lighting iitting for a tubular electric lamp, which is easily adjustable for the purpose of preventing the fitting from hanging witha lateral inclination owing to minor irregularities in manufacture.

Embodiments of the invention, as applied to the suspension of a tting for a tubular electric discharge lamp will be described by way of example, and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of part of such a t- 4ting showing one of the suspension assemblies,

Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 2--2 in Fig. 1, y

Fig. 3 is a section of an alternative to a part appearing in Figs. l and 2, and

Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively a side elevation and a sectional side elevation of another alternative to a part appearing in Figs. 1 and 2.

The lamp fitting includes a sheet metal beam I0 (Figs. l and 2) having.r in its horizontal upper face two circular holes 3,4; in. in diameter and on its longitudinal centre line. One of these holes appears at I I in Fig. 2. The snspension members may be two chains. such as I2 in Figs. l and 2, or cables or rods each having a hook I3 at its lower end.

These suspension members are attached to the fitting by similar attachment devices. Each of these devices includes a socket member in the form of a ferrule I4 consisting of aule-in. length of brass tube 3A; in. in external diameter and having a circumferential flange I5, 11A in. in diameter, at its lower end. Two g55-in. holes It and I1 are drilled rescectively through opposite sides of the wall of this tube, the hole I6 being #pin higher than the hole Il'.

An eye loop I8 is formed from a length of about 4 in. of 1/g-in. wire bent into symmetrical splayed hairpin form, with the ends I9 of its limbs turned in towards each other. After the ferrule I4 has been fitted through the hole II in the lamp tting, the loop I8 is clenched onto the ferrule so as to engage the inturned ends I9 of the limbs of the loop in the holes IS and I'I in the ferrule. Since these holes are at diicrent heights above the ange I5'oi the ferrule I4, the axis B-B of the loop I8 is inclined to the axis A--A of the ferrnle I when the loop is engaged in the suspender hook I3, and the bend of the loop I8 lies at a distance d to one side of the axis A-A of the ierrule. If the lamp fitting, when rst suspended, hangs at an inclination, instead of level, with respect to the axis of the tubular lamp, the fitting can be made to hang truly by rotating one or both of the ferrules I4 as necessary to correct the error.

In the modification of this embodiment. shown in Fig. 3, the two holes IBA and ITA in the ferrule I4 are co-axial and the hooked portion I8A of the fasteningr member is set to one side of the axis of the ierrule.

If it is desired` to enable the eccentricitv of the eye to be variable. the holes in the ferrule I 4 may be replaced bv helical slots I QB and llB (Figs. 3 and 4l, one of opposite hand to the other. The inturned ends I9 of tbe eye loop limbs pass through these slots and engage in vertical slots 20 in a liner tube 2I rotatable in the ferrule I4 and serving to keen the loon ends I9 in a plane containing the ferrole axis. Rotation of the loop I3 relatively to the ferrule I4 about the ferrnle axis varies the eccentricitv of the bend of the loon with respect to this axis when the device is loaded. v

I claim:

1. A device for use in attaching a suspension member to a pendant article and including a socket member having at its lower end a circumferential ilange and rotatablv mounted in and projecting upwards through a hole in the to of the pendant article with the flange bearing against the part of the under surface of said top that borders said hole. and a fastening member engaging said suspension member and engaged in two holes formed in opposite sidfs of the socket member. said fastening member serving to prevent tbe. socket member from dropning out of the pendant article when the suspension is unloaded, the point of contn ct between said fastening member and said suspension member is eccentric with respect to the axis of said socket member.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of the said two holes formed in 0ppm-itn sides of the socket member is higher than the other, and

" Said, fastening member is of symmetrical hairpin form, the ends of its limbs being turned towards each other and engaged in said holes respectively.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said fastening member is of a symmetrical form.

4. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said holes are circular in section and have a common axis perpendicular to the axis of the socket member, and the said fastening member is of an unsymmetrical form.

5. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said two holes formed in opposite sides of the socket member are helical slots of opposite hand.

6. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said two holes formed in opposite sides of the socket member are helical slots of opposite hand, and the device includes an auxiliary member which is carried co-axially by and rotatable relatively to said socket member and which is provided With opposed longitudinal slots in which said fastening member is engaged.

7. A device for use in attaching a suspension member to a pendant article and including a socket member constituted by a tube rotatably mounted in and projecting upwards through a hole in the top of the pendant article, said tube having two opposed holes in its side walls above said top and at its lower end a facing bearing against the part of the under surface of said top that borders said hole, and a coupling link connected to the suspension member at a point which, when the suspension is loaded, is eccentric with respect to the axis of said tube, said link being engaged in said two holes.

8. A device attaching to a suspender a holder and reector assembly for a tubular electric lamp, the device including a member mounted for rotation about a vertical axis in the top of said assembly, and a fastening member on said rotatable member and having an articulated connection with said suspender at a point which is eccentric with respect to said axis.

, RAYMOND CHARLES KEMBER.

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